VITAL STATISTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 4013, 6 January 1876, Page 2

VITAL STATISTICS.

The Registrar-General’s report on the vital statistics of the boroughs of Auckland, Thames, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch’, Dunedin , and Hokitika during the month of November, 1875, has been published. There were 299 births and 114 deaths during the month. Of these, there were 66 births and 10 deaths in Wellington. The highest deathrate was in Auckland,(viz.,(2.B2 perl,ooo ;the lowest at the Thames, 0.60 ; and the next at Wellington, 0.90. Dunedin stands at 1.75. The births were 11 more than in October. The deaths were 15 less in number than the deaths in October. Of the deaths, males contributed 72; females 42; Thirty-eight of the deaths were of children under 5 years of age, being 33.33 per cent, of the whole number ; 26 of these were of children under 1 year of age.. There were 4 deaths of persons of 65 years of age and over—namely, 3 males and 1 female The males were aged 85, 83, and 73; 2 died at Auckland, 1 in Wellington. The female was 65 years of age; she died in Auckland. The deaths in November were 114, against 129 in October. Zymotic diseases caused 25 deaths in November, .against 16 in October. Of those diseases in November typhoid fever caused 6 deaths (3 in Auckland and 3 in Christchurch), and dysentery and diarrhoea 9 i deaths ; only 7 deaths from the latter causes having occurred in the boroughs previously ; since May last. The number of deaths from ■ diseases of the respiratory organs was 19 in November, against 22 in October. The violent deaths were 5 in November ; the muni ber < 17) in October having been exceptionally large. Of these deaths, one was that Of a child, from congestion of the lungs, caused by immersion in water. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the mother on account thereof. In November, 1874, the deaths from the 7 boroughs •amounted to 108. There'were then 41 deaths from zymotic diseases, against 25 in November of this year. The large number in November, 1874, was principally owing to the prevalence of measles at the time.